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Ukraine – Ukrainian Jews Want Their Torahs Back.
Ukraine - Ukrainian Jewish leaders are demanding the return of all Torah scrolls currently stored in state museums and archives.
The call was issued during this week during a news conference in Kiev....
Moscow, Russia – Jewish Businessman Killed
Moscow, Russia - A Jewish businessmen was killed in northern Moscow.
A representative of the Moscow prosecutor's office said that Yuri Naumenko, 40, was returning to his apartment with his wi...
Brussels, Belgium – Protest Against Lithuania Government for Construction on Jewish Cemetery
Brussels, Belgium - European rabbis held a protest and prayer vigil today in Brussels over a 600-year-old cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania that they say is being used for construction.
Construction o...
Ukraine – Dont Blame Jews For The Toxic Fumes.
Ukraine - A Ukrainian Jewish lawmaker is warning against turning a poisonous chemical spill in western Ukraine into an opportunity for anti-Semitic slurs.
Alexander Feldman blamed "some politicians a...
New York, NY – O.U., Christians Petition Court Together.
New York, NY - An Orthodox Jewish group joined Christian groups petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling by a lower court they say violates First Amendment rights.
The Orthodox Union's ...
Washington, DC – U.S. Congressmen Ask Germany to Pay Holocaust Pensions
Washington, DC - A group of congressmen urged Germany to pay the pensions of Holocaust survivors.
Germany's Ghetto Pension Law was designed to compensate Holocaust survivors employed as slave laborers...
Mogilyov, Belarus – Jewish Tombstones Knocked Down
Mogilyov, Belarus - Four gravestones in a Jewish cemetery were knocked down by vandals.
Relatives of those buried in the graves appealed to the police, who theorized that the heavy tombstones ma...
Ivanovo, Russia – Jewish Leaders Can’t Find New Rabbi After Attacks
Ivanovo, Russia - Jewish leaders in Ivanovo say they cannot find a new rabbi because of anti-Semitic attacks in the city.Ervin Kirshtein, head of the local Jewish community, said several people armed ...
London – Son of Holocaust Refugees and Critic of Israel, U.K.’s New Foreign Secretary
London - Newly instated British Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed the Jewish son of Holocaust refugees and a critic of Israel to be foreign secretary.
Brown's decided to replace Margaret Beckett...
Warsaw Poland – Top White House Official 10th To Complete A Minyan.
Warsaw Poland - top Bush administration official was the 10th man for a minyan at a Polish synagogue.
Tevi Troy, a top domestic adviser to President Bush nominated last month to be deputy health se...
Washington, DC – Report: Rice Quashed Pollard Release Deal
Washington, DC - Condoleezza Rice reportedly quashed an Israeli proposal in 2005 for Jonathan Pollard to be freed in exchange for a jailed Palestinian militia leader.
On the eve of the Gaza withdrawa...
Novosibirsk, Russia – Publisher of Newspaper Sentenced to Prison for Inciting Anti-Semitism
Novosibirsk, Russia - A court sentenced the publisher of a local newspaper to prison for inciting anti-Semitism.Editor and publisher Igor Kolodzenko already had two suspended sentences on his record f...
New York, NY – Yeshiva University To Boycott British Academics.
New York, NY - Yeshiva University has requested that it be included on the list of Israeli universities that British academics are proposing to boycott.
In statement released by the university Monday...
Vienna – Vienna Courts Will Make The Call About a Neturei Karta Member’s Kids.
Vienna - Moishe Ayre Friedman's children may be paying for the infamy of their father, an anti-Zionist Jew who attended a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran.
Five of his children were expelled fr...
Australia – Anti-Semitic Sheik Steps Down
Australia - An Islamic cleric who has made a series of anti-Semitic sermons against Jews stepped down as the Muslim community's spiritual leader.
Sheik Tajeddin al-Hilaly on Sunday was succeeded ...
Chelyabinsk, Russia – Synagogue Arsonists Charged Just With Hooliganism
Chelyabinsk, Russia - Four suspects in the firebombing of a Siberian synagogue will not be charged with hate crimes.
The suspects, all men in their early 20s including two university students, were ch...
Vilnius, Lithuania – Power Struggle Heats Up Over Restitution
Vilnius, Lithuania - Here in the former home of the Vilna Gaon, two rabbis have been battling for three years for control of the city's lone synagogue.
Now one of them -- Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky, a C...
Germany – Jewish Organization Against Charging Visitors of Concentration Camps
Germany - A plan calling for entrance fees to Nazi concentration camps has rankled a major German Jewish organization. “You do not pay to mourn the dead,” a spokesman for The Central Council of Jews i...
Sderot, Israel – OU Delegation Comes Under Rocket Fire
Sderot, Israel - A delegation of the Orthodox Union came under fire from Kassam rockets in Sderot.
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the OU's executive vice president, was on a fact-finding mission to S...
Volozhin, Belarus – Yeshiva May Stay in Jewish Hands
Volozhin, Belarus - Thanks to the pressure of Vos Iz Neias and it loyal readers, the JTA is reporting that the threat to confiscate the historic yeshiva, may be averted after a U.S.-based committee pl...